Omar

Yes. It's fine, especially if you had a good time, and you can start from a joke from the party.

a) Keep the facebook conversation relatively short and sweet. Kill it before it dies. b) Have something in mind when you ask her if she wants to hang. Say that you're going to do X, and that she's welcome to tag along if she so desires.

We didn't even go, it's closed tonight. Today in class she expressed disappointment at the fact that I had gotten her hopes up before checking whether the museum was even open. I answered that I had told her I might go to the museum, and that she had replied "I'll totally go with you!", so it was, if anything, her fault. She said "Touché". In other words, nothing really happened.

I've got to agree, it sounds more like you're self-absorbed or selfish (for lack of better terms--myself, I think they're good traits).

I think it's a stretch to say you can play the stock market because you know how the GE works. At best, you have a clue of how investors' "animal spirits" work, but there are no "Behind the Scenes" or update descriptions that will let you know in advance what changes in technology and tastes will occur; instead, it's the price system that tells us what is valued, what isn't, what's overproduced, what isn't, etc. To game the stock market in the same way you do in RS requires you to anticipate changes in prices based on the same changes in prices.

As I said, aerendil, there probably isn't anything wrong about Runescape that isn't also the case for other activities. You're essentially asking why people stigmatize each other. From the Wikipedia article about social stigma: "German born sociologist and historian, Gerhard Falk [2] has written over fifty scholarly works, including STIGMA: How We Treat Outsiders. About Stigma, he wrote: All societies will always stigmatize some conditions and some behaviors because doing so provides for group solidarity by delineating "outsiders" from "insiders" (Falk, 2001)." As a matter of fact, economists are very interested in MMOs because collecting data is much easier in that context and it's a pretty good way to get closer to ceteris paribus conditions. I know Valve hired Yanis Varoufakis for this; he even has a blog on their website.

No, but only because I can't go anymore. Well I probably can if I get my studying together but I probably won't, so I'd rather have my other evenings free. Otherwise, that would be my plan.

Turns out the museum is closed Monday nights. Crisis averted, for now...

If you dig too deep into the "What's wrong with X, honestly" question, you'll always end up answering "nothing". But ultimately, people don't pick on players because playing RS is immoral, which is what you asked; I think it's because they assume that makes them less fun to be around (which is not as bad a heuristic as you can come across; RS is a pretty dull game most of the time so it's reasonable to expect fun, outgoing people to have better things to do) and that it makes them feel better about themselves. As someone else pointed out, it might also be a mechanism to get you to do other "normal" things that you'll actually enjoy. And Cracked on the matter, sort of: http://www.cracked.com/article_18571_5-reasons-its-still-not-cool-to-admit-youre-gamer_p2.html

She's an unhappy person who would add next to no valuable content to my life. She's also not very pretty. I'm deadly scared that I've been misinterpreting her signals. Were I wrong, I'm not convinced I would survive the embarrassment. My plan right now is to wait until she makes a clear move, at which point I'll tell her that no. @TTanT & y_guy: From what I've heard, she is a drama queen, or maybe some milder form of that, but it's true that there's not much I can do about it. I'd rather deal with whatever could be whipped up than leave the association or something of the sort; that would be plain silly.

Honesty isn't what I'm after here, I just want as little drama as possible in my interactions with her. It's just going to get in the way of the association's goals.

A girl I am not at all interested in is hitting on me, I think. She's likely to hang around me for a while (several semesters) because she's running for a position in my student association, and I'll be in there too. I've been pretending her hints were just jokes, but she's pushing pretty hard. What do I do? Do I tell her I'm gay? Do I pretend I'm dating a mutual friend? Do I start writing sitcoms? [Edit] Oh yeah, I told her I had an interview at a museum and that I might go to check out the place so I don't look entirely clueless and she kind of latched herself on. She's making it sound like some sort of... date...

If she was crying I'd probably ask her if she's alright. If she was face (nose?) deep in a book I probably wouldn't. If she was just sitting there and I had nothing else to do I would probably overthink myself out.

RPG, do you need the official internet seal of approval or something? Why are you asking?

I remember posting ITT for the first time when the thread was around its 60th page (and DaLatios was OP).

I'm interested to discover how you know these women, now. :P He plays halo and eats chicken with them. It kinda depends what kind of flak they're giving you. If they're just giving you the typical "guy-flak" where they're just insulting you the way guys do, then just laugh it off and don't sweat it. But if they genuinely are trying to make you feel ashamed for your hobbies, then you need to just ignore and distance yourself from those people. People gravitate towards people who don't give a [bleep]. Yeah, I think if he just owns up to it no one will actually care that much for very long.

Maybe it's because I'm not in school anymore but I'm at the point where anyone who criticizes me because of something that irrelevant will get weeded out of my life pronto.

He's at the US Naval Academy.

I kind of wonder what became of Lenticular_J.

You can use FL as a plugin within many DAWs through ReWire. It could also be the case for Reason.

^Heard that one before. It's pretty true, uppercase included. What kind of drum samples would you like to use?

They don't haha. The bass and the guitars are both free soundfonts. That's not better in and of itself but the free options for those that come with FL are pretty awful. I can't do slides and hammer-on/pull-offs with either of them though; I think that's what makes it least "human". The organ is a sound font ("Jeux14"). The piano is default but it's pretty bad if you listen to it on its own. Could have replaced it, but I didn't want the extra CPU load (FL runs pretty inefficiently). The drums are default FPC, but that's actually pretty good, because each drum or cymbal has several samples, each hit at varying degrees of force, and depending on the velocity you score your notes at, it'll use the corresponding loudness. So, it does sound decently realistic, but you've got to tinker with the velocities a lot. I'll post a screenshot of my piano roll soon and you'll see. I guess what I'm getting at is that making drums sound the way you want them to isn't difficult, just time-consuming.

^Pretty neat. That interlude with the delayed guitar (I suppose) is good. Would have had more variation in the drums though.

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